Skylight



(Np Model.) 7 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. NCAMPBELL.

SKYLIGHT.

o. 424,176. Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY N. PETERS. PlwhrLilhographer. Wnshingiflh. D. C.

(-No'Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 2 N. CAMPBELL.

SKYLIGHT.

No. 424,176. Patented Mar. 25. 1890.

M ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

NEIL CAMPBELL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SKYLIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,176, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed January 22, 1889. Serial No. 297,921- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, NEIL CAMPBELL, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Skylight, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to skylights and glazed roofs, and has for its object to provide a glazed structure of this character so constructed and arranged that leakage will be en tirely prevented, the bars and lights may be readily secured together without the use of bolts and nuts, screws, or other similar fastening devices, and danger of breaking the glass in securing it in place avoided.

The invention consists in a skylight or glazed roof and in details thereof, constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a skylight or glazed roof constructed in accordance with this invention. tion on the line as 00, Fig. 1, extending between two bars for supporting the lights. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through a support-ingbar and two lights, taken on the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a view of a portion of the glazed roof or skylight adjacent to the ridge-bar, showing parts broken away and in section. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view taken 011 the line 2 c, Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a detail view, with parts broken away, of a pair of lights for one of the hip portions of the glazed roof or skylight.

In order to simplify the construction of the parts of the glazed roof or skylight, I form the light or glass 1 with a gutter 2 on its upper edge, a rib 3 011 its under side adjacent to its opposite edge, which serves as a stop or rest for the edge of the adjacent light, said rib projecting into the adjacent gutter 2, and upwardly-extending flanges l on its side edges to engage grooves in a cap and form a lock-joint therewith, the light 1, with its gutter, rib, and flanges, being molded in one piece of glass. By this means I avoid any seams which occasion leakage and liability shaped or dovetailed joint.

Fig. 2 is a sec-- of breakage of the glass where separate metallic gutters and attaching devices are employed in forming the joints.

Any form of bar for supporting the lights may be employed. As here shown, however, I preferably provide a metallic bar 5, formed with the longitudinal T-shaped web 6, the internal longitudinal grooves 7 to contain a packing and cushion strip 8, of rubber or other suitable material, and the external longitudinal gutters 9. The lights 1 are arranged between the bars 5, with their sides resting on the strip 8, their side flanges 4 abutting againstthe web 6 of bar 5, and the ends of the gutters 2 projecting over the gutters 9.

' The lights are held in place by a series of caps 10, formed with an essentially T-shaped or dovetailed longitudinal slot 11, preferably a pronounced T-shaped slot, engaging the corresponding-shaped web 6 of-bar 5, and angular grooves 12, engaging the side flanges 4 of the lights 1, forming an essentially T- The caps 10 are slid onto the bar 5, with their adjacent ends abutting each other, and form alock-j oint with the bar 5 and the lights 1. The lights 1,which extend from the ridge of the skylight or glazed roof to the eaves between bars 5, are arranged with their ends overlapping similarly to shingles and held against endwise movement by means of the rib 3, as shown in Fig. 2. Owing to this arrangement, the caps 10 are of different depths at their ends, so as to provide for stepped surfaces presented by the overlapping lights 1.

It will readily be seen that in' the construction and arrangement of the joints as herein set forth only such seams are afforded as will carry any water of leakage or condensation into the troughs or gutters 2 and 9. The glazed roof or skylight will thus be practically a dry one.

Great trouble and annoyance has been occasioned in the construction of glazed roofs and skylights, owing to the inability to provide tight seams at the hipped portions of the roof. To obviate this I provide angular or hip lights 13, with side flanges 4., stop-ribs 3, and gutters 2, as shown best in Fig. 4, all formed of a single piece of glass similarly to lights 1. Their side flanges 4 also engage the angular grooves 12 in the adjacent caps 10, With their side edges resting on the adjacent bars 5.

It will be understood that in completing the glazed roof or skylight the ridge 14 will be constructed with a cap 10', similar to an extended cap 10, and with a bar 5, the upper ends of the lights adjacent to the ridge 14 having flanges engaging the cap 10 similarly to the side flanges 4.

By means of this invention a Water-tight skylight or glazed roof is provided which may be readily put together.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

1. In a skylight, an angular hip-light with flanges extending upwardly from its sides and a gutter and stop-rib depending from its under side, all formed in a single piece, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a skylight, a cap 10, formed with a T- shaped longitudinal slot 11 and angular grooves 12, substantially as shown and described.

A skylight constructed with light-supporting bars 5, formed with a longitudinal T- shaped web 6, internal longitudinal grooves 7, and external longitudinal gutters 9, With packing-strips 8, located in grooves 7, lights or glasses 1, formed in a single piece, with a depending gutter 2 on one end, a stop-rib 3 at its other end, and upwardly-extending side flanges 4, the glasses or lights resting on the packingstr'ips 8, and caps 10, with a longitudinal T-shaped slot 11, engaging the T- shaped web 6, and angular grooves 12, engaging the flanges 4 of lights 1, substantially as shown and described.

NEIL CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

EDWARD W. CODY, EDGAR TATE. 

